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How to use hogsheads in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hogsheads? Here are some examples.

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But numerous cards depict slaves picking tobacco, pressing it into hogsheads for transport, and sometimes consuming it.
The tun itself came to mean a specific size equal to four hogsheads or about 208 gallons.
Wine-maker Geoff Merrill then matures it in American oak hogsheads for two years.
An inventory of Okeman's works near Poole in Dorset, dated November 1583, records 55 hogsheads of copperas, along with the equipment for manufacturing alum and copperas.
Then there were several negroes employed in putting the sugar into hogsheads.
So he relied largely on claret, buying four hogsheads of 24 dozen bottles of Margaux and one hogshead of Lafite every three months.
That was the equivalent at the time of buying 300,000 cows or the same number of hogsheads of strong liquor.
More modern XXth century buildings allow the wine to mature in a huge variety of containers: oak casks and barrels, half hogsheads, conical vats.
The whisky has matured in refill American oak hogsheads which were individually selected for the bottling.
As far back as the 1820s, Senator Daniel Webster acquired a room on the third floor of the Capitol above the Senate chamber for a place to store hogsheads of wine from his personal collection.
Aged in half oak hogsheads in climatized chai, 12 months.
Alongside the slipway, old fish cellars used to be known as the Pilchard Palace in recognition of the tons of fish packed into hogsheads with salt and dispatched up country or abroad.
Planters would then fill large hogsheads with tobacco and convey them to inspection warehouses.
Examples from Classical Literature
If there should be a little more then to fill two hogsheads, put it in a rundlet by it self.
Tom leaned over one of the hogsheads and suddenly let himself go into it headfirst.
A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar hogsheads!
The tirage or bottling is effected by means of two large tuns placed side by side, and holding twelve hogsheads of wine each.
This strong drink was metheglin, of which two hogsheads were to be delivered at Plymouth.
In a good season it produces from fifty to sixty thousand hogsheads of muscovado sugar of the best quality.
The pointsman aloft in the signal-box made the motions of drawing, with some difficulty, hogsheads of beer.
It must have taken innumerable hogsheads of his thin vintage to empurple his face in this manner.
Yes, a small declivity to the south, yonder on my hill, gives me twenty hogsheads.
A second tun was constructed in 1664, and this held six hundred hogsheads.
We use two half hogsheads at once, to prepare it expeditiously.
We press the tobacco in hogsheads, you know, and we call it prizing.
Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns.
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